Top-Heavy

Top-Heavy is an Autobot Action Master partner from the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Universe line exists solely to get us a repaint of Backstop as Top-Heavy. You know this to be true.

Top-Heavy is the realist of the pair he makes up with Skyfall, though others would call him the "nagger" of the two. Skyfall's daydreamy behavior annoys the "down-to-earth" Top-Heavy greatly.

Games

Transformers: Earth Wars

Toys

The Transformers

Giving new meaning to the phrase "heavy artillery."

• Skyfall with Top-Heavy (Action Master, 1990)

• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Released in the seventh and final year of the original The Transformers toyline in the US (sixth and not-final in Europe), in the third wave of "basic" carded Action Masters, Top-Heavy is a robotic rhinoceros. Pushing down on his tail flips his head and a chunk of his inner body around via a spring-loaded mechanism, revealing a (non-firing) blaster. Folding his legs up forms his triple-barreled electro-pulse machine gun mode, which can be used by any regular Action Master figure. His gun barrel can be extended by attaching the handgun from any carded Action Master. His haunches have peg-holes on the side to mount standard Action Master weapons with.

He was only available with his larger partner Skyfall.

• More information on Top-Heavy at TFU.info

Notes

• The Action Master partner robots were given the "Targetmaster" classification retroactively by Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile series.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Top-Heavy (トップヘビー Toppu Hebī)